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EDMONTON — Alberta mom Allyson McConnell will be deported back to her native Australia on Monday despite pending appeals by Alberta Justice for her to face murder charges in the 2010 drowning deaths of her two young boys.

The 34-year-old Millet mom is being returned home after completing a 10-month sentence at the Alberta Hospital Thursday for the manslaughter of her 10-month-old son Jayden and two-year-old son Connor.

In a hearing held Friday in Vancouver, the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board accepted the Canadian Border Services Agency’s (CBSA) assertion that McConnell poses a risk to the public and should remain in CBSA custody until her scheduled flight.

During the hearing, defence lawyer Peter Royal didn’t argue the custody ruling as McConnell is mere days away from leaving Canada.

“She’s been fully co-operative and compliant throughout and that remains the case now,” said Royal. “She is anxious, in fact, to return to Australia which is her home country.”

Calling McConnell’s sentence “inadequate,” Justice Minister Jonathan Denis said Alberta Justice will push to have her extradited back to Canada to face the original charges of second-degree murder.

“We are not finished here. I fully intend to pursue this to every degree that the law allows ... but there’s very little, if anything, that can be done to keep her here.”

Denis said the appeals were launched immediately after her sentencing in June of last year, but the lengthy process moved slower than McConnell’s sentence.

She has a valid passport and has completed her sentence, said Denis, so they have no legal authority to keep McConnell in Canada but will continue to pursue the appeals.

“If we are successful, we will pursue extradition procedures from Australia,” said Denis. “Canada and Australia have close diplomatic ties. I have no reason to believe they wouldn’t honour an extradition order.”

McConnell attended the hearing by phone from the Alberta Hospital, where she’s spent the last three years and is currently being held under a mental health certificate.

Last April, Justice Michelle Crighton convicted McConnell of manslaughter, ruling there was “reasonable doubt” that McConnell intended to kill her children as she was depressed, under medication and could not recall the events between Jan. 28-31, 2010.

In June 2012, McConnell was sentenced to six years in prison with double credit for time served, a new rule that came into effect in early 2010. She served two-thirds of a 15-month sentence under psychiatric care at Alberta Hospital.